It’s the opening of the East Gate on the Natural Circadian Circle of the year. To celebrate I have a gift for you. Please register and take part in the
We begin, Monday, March 22. You can registerand receive the email each of the 8 days knowing that you are free to engage the creative prompts whenever you choose. No pressure.
Circadian time is all about PWP, making progress without pressure
My ‘Art in the Park’ crew, First Landing State Park
It’s time for new. New outlook, new hope, a new adventure, new habits and behaviors, new ways to develop your deepest dream.
In this post, I do something that I have not done before. Something new. I share the better part of the current article from the Wisdom Project by David Allen … I hope that you seek it out to read in full.
Mindfulness + environment = meta-mindfulness
The reward for expanding awareness to our greater environment, as it unfolds, is that it helps you anchor yourself in time and place.
Noticing and celebrating what’s happening with the weather, temperature, animals, trees and general vibe can help us be more centered and connected. That’s what those holidays do or were designed to do. They bring us together around things we all value religiously and secularly: life, new starts, love, generosity, peace.
And of course there are many personally enjoyable ways to celebrate and connect toseasons as well: walking in nature, learning to sing or play a seasonal or holiday song, watching a seasonal or holiday movie, enjoying foods traditionally associated with the season (jelly beans!) and other activities designed to deliver happiness.
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt,” advised Margaret Atwood in her book, “Bluebeard’s Egg.”
As you get in touch with spring’s gifts, its meaning and metaphoric reminders, make it a year-round meditation.
“Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, who knew several books worth about living in community with the seasons.
Want to get more in touch with the seasons? In addition to a classic such as Thoreau’s “Walden,” another title that guides you through the year is Verlyn Klinkenborg’s hyperobservational “The Rural Life.”
I took a year to read it so I could focus on each month’s chapter at its appropriate time. Author Wendy Pfeffer and illustrator Linda Bleck — whose “A New Beginning” taught me about some spring holidays — created four good children’s books about the equinoxes and solstices.
Each season has its touchstones for the mind and body, many of which you already enjoy, perhaps without realizing it.
But in spring, let yourself break out of the cocoon. Open those windows. get outside, plant something, fly a kite, ride a bike, have a picnic. We’ve endured the darkness and need to play in the light.
See you during the 8-Day Challenge to Focus Your Creative Self-Expression …
In every season I think the first thing I do is notice the light…then I find myself sniffing the air and just looking. This year I am involved in a Lenten study that meshes scripture and the poetry of Mary Oliver. Reading her poetry inspires me to go within and get up and out.
In every season I think the first thing I do is notice the light…then I find myself sniffing the air and just looking. This year I am involved in a Lenten study that meshes scripture and the poetry of Mary Oliver. Reading her poetry inspires me to go within and get up and out.